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The Award-Winning WSL-Amazon
Easily Integrate Amazon Web Services into Your
REALbasic Applications.
  New 2.0 Version!

This HTTPSocket subclass wraps the Amazon Web Services ECS 4.0 API into an easy-to-use library of 36 powerful methods and 164 properties with support for their US, UK, German, French, Canadian, and Japanese Amazon stores. Includes extensive search and information retrieval capabilities, plus the ability to create, update and checkout Amazon shopping carts -- all from within your REALbasic applications! This award-winning class library also comes with the project source code for a fully-functional Amazon-powered application, which you can reuse in your own REALbasic projects! Download the Free Demo...

WSL-Amazon

Licensing Options for WSL-Amazon 2.0:

  • Component License -- only $49.00 (US)
    Purchase a single seat license to download the encrypted WSL-Amazon classes. The Component License includes (1) Single Incident Support Plan and allows you to use the encrypted WSL-Amazon classes in your compiled REALbasic applications Royalty-Free! Buy a Component License!
     
  • Source Code License -- only $299.00 (US)
    Purchase a single seat license to download the full source code of the WSL-Amazon classes. Having access to the source code will allow you to customize the existing features to best suit your specific application needs. The Source Code License includes (1) Single Incident Support Plan Plan and allows you to use the WSL-Amazon classes in your compiled REALbasic applications Royalty-Free! Buy a Source Code License!
     
  • Single Incident Support Plan -- only $39.00 (US)
    Under this plan, Electric Butterfly will assist a support customer with a single WSL-Amazon related issue, reviewing the customer's code to help troubleshoot/resolve the reported issue. If you want help with more than one issue, then purchase a Single Incident Support Plan for each issue. Buy a Single Incident Support Plan!
     
  • Custom Programming -- Contact Us for Pricing
    Need a specific feature that's beyond the scope of WSL-Amazon? Electric Butterfly has extensive experience programming REALbasic with various web services and can help! For details, please Contact Software Development Services.
     

The Benefit of Using WSL-Amazon...
Even though REALbasic supports XML and SOAP, the extensive API of Amazon Web Services can seem daunting and extremely time-consuming to implement. WSL-Amazon changes all that with optimized, object-oriented REALbasic classes that wrap this large API into time-saving methods and properties. No knowledge of XML or SOAP is needed! WSL-Amazon provides an easy-to-use REALbasic framework for easily accessing Amazon Web Services. Download the Free Demo...

Key Features:

  • Search by Keyword, ASIN, UPC, Author, Artist/Musician, Actor/Actress, Film Director, Manufacturer, Similar Products, Listmania ID, Wishlist ID, or special Text Stream Phrases.
     
  • Search All of Amazon or choose from specific Category filters such as Books, Music, DVD, Software, and many others.
     
  • Retrieves extensive product details, including product images.
     
  • Supports the US, UK, German, French, Canadian, and Japanese Amazon stores.
     
  • Display Customer Reviews.
     
  • Get Ratings as either an Integer (Number) or Picture (Stars).
     
  • Show related Accessories, Listmania Lists and Similar Products.
     
  • Display Third-Party Marketplace Offers for a selected product.
     
  • Create, Update, and Checkout Amazon Shopping Carts.
     
  • Unicode-savvy: receives Amazon data in UTF-8 format.
     
  • Includes project source code for a fully-functional Amazon-powered application.
     
  • Includes a Free "WSLeditfield" Editfield subclass that can parse Amazon's basic HTML tags. Great for displaying Product Descriptions and Customer Reviews!

Make Money with WSL-Amazon!
WSL-Amazon includes optional properties for setting your Amazon Associates ID for their US, UK, German, French, Canadian, and Japanese Amazon stores. When these optional properties are set, your Amazon Associates ID will get passed to Amazon.com when users checkout their shopping cart items with your WSL-Amazon-powered application. If those items are purchased, then you should receive an affiliate commission from Amazon.com (see the Amazon Associates Program for details).

What's New in Version 2.0:
[New] - Now utilizes Amazon ECS 4.0 (Version 2007-05-14) to take advantage of the very latest features from Amazon Web Services!
[New] - Now includes 36 powerful methods and 164 properties for accessing even more Amazon product data and features than ever before!
[New] - Added support for Amazon France and Amazon Canada.
[New] - Completely rewritten with a brand new API and object-oriented class architecture that's optimized for faster performance, improved ease-of-use, enhanced data handling, future extensibility, and support for more features!
[Opt] - Improved XML error handling and reporting of messages sent from Amazon. All error and query messages are sent to the global methods AmazonErrorMsg and AmazonQueryMsg, so that your application can handle or display them any way you want.
[Opt] - More efficient system for checking product image availability, downloading product images, and caching product images for quicker display during runtime sessions.
[Opt] - The WSLeditfield class has been updated with improved parsing of HTML styled text (as seen in Amazon Editorial Reviews and Customer Reviews).
[Chg] - Initialize method is no longer called. Now just set your Amazon AccessKeyID property in the WSLamazon sub-class Property List or assign your key to the AccessKeyId property in code BEFORE performing any Amazon searches or requests. The optional Amazon Associate ID properties (one for each country) can also be set via the WSLamazon sub-class Property List or in code.
[Chg] - Unpopulated data properties now return nothing "" (for Strings) or 0 (for Integers) instead of the previous kemptyfield Constant from version 1.2.
[Chg] - Browse Node searches have been removed, but enhanced support for Browse Nodes will be added in a future release.

REAL Software Showcases WSL-Amazon at DEMO@15
At the DEMO@15 conference, REAL Software demonstrated the cross-platform development power of REALbasic 2005 by creating a web services client from scratch on Windows, then ran it on Linux and Mac OS X, all in less than 3 minutes. The audience responded with an approving round of applause. After the presentation, REAL Software President and CEO Geoff Perlman acknowledged, "a lot of people collaborated to make our demo so effective. In addition to all of the REAL Software engineers who worked hard to get the product as far as it is, I owe a big 'thanks' to Dave Wooldridge at Electric Butterfly, who provided us with his outstanding Amazon Web Services Library, an essential part of our demo. Anyone interested in web services should check out the full line of web services components offered by Electric Butterfly." Read the Press Release...

 
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Requirements
REALbasic 2006r3 or higher
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